Re: [xml-dev] another naieve question - valid characters for ID values

Tim Bray wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > Why do the the values of an ID attribute have to start with something
> > besides a number?
>
> Inherited from SGML.  No other real good reason for it. -Tim

... and SGML did it that way because an ID-valued attribute
is a name for the element on which it appears, so it has
the same lexical form as other names.



--Joe English